Intermission

October 15, 2010

We interrupt the Freakshow Circus for the following distraction from The Management: Here follows a birthday tribute to the hubs; it’s not much different from last year’s tribute because, you know, it’s been tougher than a 3-legged dog over here. So if you were around last year, feel free to move on to fresher turf, I’ll understand. But a dude as fan-tas-tic as my man deserves a shout out, so here goes!

Sometimes, things cannot be avoided.

Sometimes, a bitter girl-woman is dragged to a lame-ass party because she’s broken too many promises already, and it’s Payback Time.

Sometimes, a lame party is even lamer than the snarkiest of girls can tolerate.

Sometimes, it’s a good idea to hide out in a stranger’s kitchen. Because there’s a guy leaning against a wall, smirk on his face, giving very witty and barbed snark to a girl who’s as cuddly as a pit viper. A girl that Bitter Girl happens to loathe.

Sometimes, girls who never, ever, throw themselves at men break their own rules.

Sometimes, snark + snark = something strangely gentle.

Sometimes, it takes a few short hours to both begin and end a story.

But Sometimes it takes longer. Sometimes, a very young, very scared girl in India endures a long, bloody and complicated birth. A birth unattended by her husband, who left months ago, trying to forge a fresh start in a new country, with one semester’s tuition in his pocket.

Sometimes, when you have to do impossible things, you can. And you are rewarded with the greatest gift. A gift who, 30 years later, becomes the greatest gift to another woman.